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    • Business rates

      • Pay your business rates by Direct Debit
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      • View your business rates account and bills
      • Your business rates bill explained
      • Email and text reminders for business rates missed payments
      • What to do if you can't pay your business rates
      • Help and discounts for business rates
      • Help with business rates for small businesses
      • Apply for a charitable relief discount on your business rates bill
      • Tell us your business is moving
      • Tell us about a change of tenants in a business address
      • About business rates
      • How business rates are calculated
      • Business rates revaluation 2026
      • A guide to business rates
      • Business rates for empty properties
      • Business rates for short stay holiday lets
      • Business rates for newly built properties
      • Business information and accounts in credit
      • List of business rates information for Brighton & Hove
      • List of unclaimed business rate credits
      • Contact us about business rates
    • Contracts and tenders

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      • Our supplier Code of Conduct
      • Top tips for tendering with Brighton & Hove City Council
      • Becoming an Approved council supplier
      • Social value
      • Equalities in Procurement
      • Sustainable procurement
    • Food safety

      • How the food hygiene rating scheme works
      • What happens during a food hygiene inspection
      • How to keep your food business safe and hygienic
      • Respond to your food hygiene rating
      • Why a business may not have a food hygiene rating
      • Start and register a new food business
      • Open a food stall in a market
      • Book food safety training
      • Find food safety guidance
      • Food hygiene information in other languages
      • Reduce the risk of E. coli
      • How to dispose of used cooking oil
      • Cook high risk foods safely
      • Waste disposal - how food businesses can comply with the law
      • Make a complaint about food
      • Report food poisoning
      • How we look into diseases reported to us
      • What a food alert is
      • Sampling food for safety
      • Join the Healthy Choice scheme
      • Find healthy choices in Brighton & Hove
    • Licensing and gambling

      • Taxi licences
      • Apply for or renew an HMO licence
      • Highway licensing - advertising boards, shop displays, and tables and chairs
      • Highway licensing - skips, scaffolds, hoardings, materials and plant
      • Drones
      • Metal detecting
      • Animal business licensing fees
      • Apply for a dog breeding licence
      • Apply to keep an animal for entertainment or education
      • Apply for a licence to sell animals as pets
      • Apply for an animal day care licence or a dog boarding licence
      • Apply for a licence to hire out horses for riding
      • Apply to open a zoo or renew a zoo licence
      • Apply to keep a dangerous wild animal
      • Apply for a premises licence
      • Statement of Licensing Policy 2026
      • Make a change to a premises licence
      • Personal licence to sell alcohol
      • Temporary event notices
      • Make a complaint about a licensed premises
      • Surrender a premises Licence
      • Notification of an interest in premises
      • How to get an age rating for a film
      • Licensing Public Register
      • Statement of Licensing Policy 2026 to 2031 consultation
    • Trading standards

      • Find consumer advice
      • Book training to sell age restricted items
      • Find business advice
      • Register for animal feed
      • Apply to store and sell fireworks on your premises
      • Apply for a petroleum storage certificate
      • Businesses and employment
      • What the Buy With Confidence scheme is
      • Advice for buying a puppy
      • Get advice if you're thinking of having work done at home
      • What the food allergens are
      • Safer Communities Enforcement Policy
      • Brighton & Hove enforcement policy in relation to the relevant letting agency legislation
    • Support for businesses

      • Business support
      • Brighton & Hove economic plan 2024 to 2027
      • Brighton & Hove economic plan 2024 to 2027: Evidence base
      • Brighton & Hove Economic Growth Board
      • Our commitment to the Living Wage
      • Sustainable business
      • Commercial property
      • Invest in Brighton & Hove
      • Local economic information and data
      • Business continuity
      • Employing an apprentice
      • Co-working and shared workspace in Brighton & Hove

Support for businesses

Support available for your business and your employees.

Business support
We offer a range of business support, from helping you to start a new business to accessing financial support.
Brighton & Hove Economic Plan 2024 to 2027
Find out what the Brighton & Hove Economic Plan is and read the document.
Brighton & Hove economic plan 2024 to 2027: Evidence base
Read an overview of the evidence base that underpins the city’s new Economic Plan and download the full Evidence Base report.
Brighton & Hove Economic Growth Board
Find out about the Brighton & Hove Economic Growth Board.
Our commitment to the Living Wage

The Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign aims to encourage local businesses to voluntarily pay all employees a decent hourly rate.

Sustainable business

Find out how to reduce the carbon footprint of your business, improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Commercial property

Find a premises for your business with contact details for local commercial agents.

Invest in Brighton & Hove

What the city has to offer investors.

Local economic information and data

Access publicly available data on the local economy.

Business Continuity

Advice for your business following a serious incident such as fire or flood.

Employing an apprentice

Find out how to employ an apprentice and how it could benefit your business.

Co-working and shared workspace in Brighton & Hove

Find co-working and shared workspaces across the city.

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